If you follow my Facebook page you may have seen my post yesterday about my camera breaking mid-shoot when it just literally could not take the cute baby photos any longer.
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| The final clicks :( |
My first step was to get out my back-up camera. However there is a reason that my backup camera is not my primary camera (like any reserve team, its not as good) and so we made the call to postpone the rest of the shoot for two days while I got my primary camera fixed or upgraded.
Well... I upgraded.
For the past two years my wonderful Canon 6D has been there with me welcoming new babies and celebrating family times. It captured my own childrens' birthday parties, family holidays, Christmas mornings and of course hundreds of beautiful families, grinning kids and soft, sweet newborns.
Really, it was only a matter of time before it could take no more, and so while it is sent for repairs and destined as my new backup camera, the Canon 5D Mkiii moved into my pink camera bag.
I have longed for this camera for some time now, it is the most highly regarded Canon camera on the market, with my old 6D a very close second place.
So whats a photographer to do when she gets a new camera?
Step 1: Charge the battery
Step 2: Pick kids up from school
Step 3: Bribe children to put on pretty dresses and brush their school hair
Step 4: Pray the neighbour with the overgrown lawn hasn't done his 6 monthly mow today
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| Yasss! Not mowed for months! |
Step 5: Beg, bribe, pretend cry, do whatever it takes to get some half-decent photographer's-child* photos that can be used for test shots on the new camera and shared in this blog post. Assure child that there are no snakes/prickles/spiders/bugs/ants in the long grass. Assure child that if they do not co-operate there will be no pizza for dinner.
Step 6: "Look at me! Look at each other! Stop looking weird! Just be normal! Why are you making that weird face? Open your eyes! Argh! Get inside. Why can't any thing be easy today?"
Step 7: Load photos into computer and sit stunned at somehow having captured not just one, but many photos of your children with normal faces and smiles.
!! Bonus !!
2016 Christmas presents for grandparents - Check!
*Photographers Child
[fuh-tog-ruh-fers chahyld]
Tiny human spawn of photographers. Commonly forced unwillingly to be the subject of a photo testing out a new camera, lens, prop, backdrop or creative idea. Child is most often surly and uncooperative in such circumstance and goes out of their way to do everything the opposite of what the photographer asks of them so as to elongate the pain of the situation.
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